pin money
UK/ˈpɪnmʌni/
pin money noun: an allowance of money given by a man to his wife or to other dependents for their personal, discretionary use.
Noun
pin money (uncountable)
- An allowance of money given by a man to his wife or to other dependents for their personal, discretionary use.
- Meronyms: pocket change, small change, loose change
- Near-synonym: petty cash
- A relatively small sum of cash kept in one's personal possession for routine expenses or incidental purchases; an amount of money which is not particularly significant.
- Meronyms: pocket change, small change, loose change
- Near-synonym: petty cash
pin money meaning in Tamil
pin money in Tamil
- சிறுவாட்டுப் பணம்
Examples of pin money in a sentence
- What pin money, what jewels, what carriages you will have!1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XVII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton...
- But these sums were but a small part of their income, were merely pin money for their wives and children.1911, David Graham Phillips, chapter 7, in The Conflict:
- "Money—yes; pin money: a couple of hundred thousand, perhaps.1892, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter III, in The American Claimant, New York, N.Y.: Charles L[uther] Webster &...
- I make a fairish amount of pin money on my poultry and some of my preserves that I send to Boston, […]1917, Christopher Morley, chapter 3, in Parnassus on Wheels, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 26:
Synonyms of pin money
Forms of pin money
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Questions about pin money
- What does pin money mean?
- Pin money means an allowance of money given by a man to his wife or to other dependents for their personal, discretionary use.
- What is pin money in Tamil?
- Pin money in Tamil is சிறுவாட்டுப் பணம். See Pin money meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use pin money in a sentence?
- What pin money, what jewels, what carriages you will have!
- What part of speech is pin money?
- Pin money is a noun.
- How do you pronounce pin money?
- Pin money is pronounced /ˈpɪnmʌni/ (UK).
Words near pin money in the dictionary
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